Fostering innovation and nurturing entrepreneurial talent in Europe: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)

“Forschen in Europa: Nationale und Europäische Forschungsförderung”

Nadja Dokter, EIT and Caroline von Dahl, KIC InnoEnergy

25 September, Magdeburg

UNLOCKING THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION POTENTIAL

EIT`s mission: To become the catalyst for

a step change in the European Union’s

innovation capacity and impact”

Higher Education

Research & Technology

Business

Integrating the three sides of the knowledge triangle to drive entrepreneurial innovation

EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY (EIT)

Facilitating the following transitions:

from idea to product

from lab to market

from student to entrepreneur

in areas of high societal need.

THE EIT’s ENGINE: ITS KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION COMMUNITIES (KICs)

• Highly integrated, creative, excellence-driven and autonomouslong-term partnerships

• Driven by societal challenges: climate change mitigation and adaptation,future information and communication society and sustainable energy

• Fostering the emergence of entrepreneurs

Internationally distributed innovation hubs working across borders.

Climate-KIC:

Co-location centre

RIC (Regional Implementation and

Innovation Centre)

EIT ICT Labs:

Co-location centre

Associate Partner

KIC InnoEnergyCo-location centre

KICs’ EUROPEAN IMPACT & GOOD PRACTICE

KIC Partners

Climate-KIC: inc. Bayer, EDF, GDF Suez, DSM, Schipol Airport, ETH Zurich,Imperial College London, Potsdam Institute for Climate ImpactResearch PIK, Technische Universität Berlin, ForschungszentrumJülich GmbH, l’Institut national de la recherche agronomique INRA,Delft University of Technology, Utrecht University,…

EIT ICT Labs: inc. Alcatel Lucent, Fraunhofer, KTH, Nokia, AaltoUniversity, Ericsson, INRIA, Philips, Orange, SAP, Siemens, TRENTO Rise,Universite Paris Sud, Telecom Italia, VTT,...

KIC InnoEnergy: inc. EnBW, Vattenfall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(KIT), Grenoble Ecole de Management, CEA, EDF, VITO, ESADE, Gas NaturalFenosa, TNE, K.U. Leuven, ABB, KTH, AGH University of Technology,Central Mining Institute, KTH, ….

KIC PARTNERS 2012

EIT ICT Labs 75 KIC Partners

Climate-KIC 86 KIC Partners

KIC InnoEnergy104 KIC Partners

In 2012, the three KIC brought together over 260 KIC Partners

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Objectives of KICs

Climate-KIC: to accelerate the innovation required for a transformation toa low-carbon economy, and to ensure Europe benefits from new technologies,company growth and jobs

EIT ICT labs: to turn Europe into the global leader in ICT innovation

KIC InnoEnergy: to become the leading engine of innovation in the field of sustainable energy

EIT and KIC ACTIVITY FIELDS

ACTIVITY FIELDS

EDUCATIONPromoting excellent education for creativity, innovation and

entrepreneurship by high quality EIT labelled Master and PHD programmes, fostering a

vibrant EIT student & alumni community.

ENTREPRENEURSHIPPromoting a risk taking mindset and culture by creating more favourable environments for passionate entrepreneurial talent and entrepreneurship driven

innovation to flourish.

WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Developing innovative ecosystems to create and grow world-class,

breakthrough innovations by exploiting KIC synergies and complementarities at European level (cross-border).

KICs thematic focus areasClimate-KIC:

Managing climate drivers

Water management

Low carbon cities

Zero carbon production

EIT ICT labs:

Smart spaces

Smart energy systems

Health and wellbeing

Digital cities of the future

Future media and content delivery

Intelligent mobility and transportation systems

KIC InnoEnergy:

Energy form chemical fuels

Renewables

Cean coal technologies

Sustainable nuclear and renewable energy convergence

Intelligent, energy efficient buildings and cities

European smart electric grid and electric storage

Climate-KIC Innovation and Pathfinder projects

Innovations projects

Objective: Develop and bring to market products and services that impact existing or create new value chains

Typical outputs: Products, services, prototypes built, demonstration sites equipped

Typical duration and size: Larger projects of 1-3 years.

Lead: Different co-location centres

Pathfinder projects:

Objective: Assess market opportunities and related innovation challenges as well as potentials for scaling up

Typical outputs: Market analyses, benchmarking methods, recommendations on / implementation of best practices and policies to remove barriers

Typical duration and size: Smaller projects up to 1 year

Opportunities for Post-docs Participation in Innovation projects

Intensive climate innovation school “the journey”-explore the potential for launching start-up business ventures, support from Climate-KIC business coaches, business plan writing and presentation, access to network of international fellow innovators

Incubation programme- support for developing ideas for bidding for funds

Entrepreneurship Masterclasses - learn from world leaders in business creation

Venture competitions - pitch business ideas for support

EIT ICT Labs - Catalysing Research To generate knowledge that leads to new innovative products, services, and to the generation of patents by applying a number of Research Catalysts:

Experience & Living Labs - researchers and engineers test and modify products in close collaboration with end-users in a real-life or a real-as-life setting

Mobility Program - international and interdisciplinary mobility of researchers and engineers and foster research collaboration between academia and industry

Testbeds & Simulation Tools - develop a common culture of experimentation in research and foster their take-up into innovation applications and services development of common test-beds, testing platform and simulation tools

EIT ICT Labs - Catalysing BusinessTo transform research results into marketable innovationFoster innovation on both the entrepreneurial and the industrial path Entrepreneurs with a business idea within EIT ICT Labs focus areas can be supported to bring their idea to life

•Access to Finance •Best practice Benchmarking •Business Club •Entrepreneurship Modelling•Entrepreneurs Club

•Entrepreneurs Club •Entrepreneurship Support System •European SME Programme•Innovation Radar•Technology Transfer Programme

The leading engine in the field of energy

technologies

Dr. Caroline C. von Dahl

KIC InnoEnergy PhD School CoordinatorAlbert-Nestler-Str. 26

76131 Karlsruhe, Germanycaroline.vondahl@kic-innoenergy.com

KIC InnoEnergyA European Consortium

KISSWIN Berlin, 18.01.2012

KIC InnoEnergyAn Energy Alliance

Energy for Smart Cities Smart Electric Grids and Storage

Clean Coal TechnologiesSustainable Energy Systems for Renewables

Energy from Chemical Fuels

Sustainable Nuclear and Converging Technologies

KIC InnoEnergyOur Activities – output oriented

IDEA PRODUCTinnovation projects

business creation

education

• innovation projectsInnovation technology for the energy process (patents, products and services)

• business creation servicesStart Ups/Spin Offs or business growth

• educationMSc, PhDs and PostDoc and PostMaster engineers, Learning modules

basic research applied research

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Possibilities for experienced researchers within KIC InnoEnergy

What we offer:• KIC InnoEnergy Innovation Projects

financial support for European consortia with industry participation

• KIC InnoEnergy HighwayTM

business creation services; a European network and the first customer

• fellowshipsindividual financing, with support from COFUND

KIC InnoEnergy is supporting research on the “last mile”, from product development to market entry in the field of energy technology.

Investing in the next round of KICsProposed future themes

2014:

• Food4future

• Raw materials

• Healthy living & activeageing

2018:

• Added value manufacturing

• Smart secure societies

• Urban mobility

Proposed Budget:

• H2020 total financial contribution to the EIT (for existing and new

KICs) : 3.18 billion € for 2014-2020.

More information at: www.eit.europa.eu

www.climate-kic.org

www.eitictlabs.eu

www.kic-innoenergy.com

... Research on the move! … … Innovation powered by EIT! …

… Entrepreneurs in the making! …